From kde-bugs-dist  Fri Jun 30 20:02:35 2000
From: Linux QA <linuxqa () corel ! com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:02:35 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#5715: kcontrol: Personnalization/Country & Language : Cannot localise            decimal symbol
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>> Related to that, I would like to know, why are there flags for
>> languages?

>That's historical I guess. Maybe it's time to remove them?

I would say yes.

The thing is that a language should not be identified to a particular
country flag. For example, French is spoken in France, but also in
Belgium, in Canada and in some countries of Africa (etc). English is
also spoken widely accross the world.

So, taking the French language case, to well represent French countries
out there, putting a different flag for each languages, we would need a
French language for each country...

So, I do suggest to remove the flags.

Guillaume Pratte
Linux QA